First, the skills of distinguishing good red wine
Look at the color. High-quality wine is clarified and filtered by protein, with clear color and moderate transparency. As Chen Fang goes on, the color will gradually change from purple to brown. Inferior wines are filtered through a screen, some are turbid and dull, and some are as bright as water but have no texture.
Clever collocation. Don't drink too much good wine. It is recommended not to exceed 125ml per day. In addition, it tastes best before or during meals. Wine usually goes with western food, dry red is suitable for cheese and steak, and sweet white is more suitable for foie gras. Chinese food is usually sweet and white with Sichuan cuisine, and it is recognized by experts that bordeaux Margaux produces dry red with Shanghai local cuisine.
Smell the fragrance. Ordinary wines are aged in oak barrels. After entering the glass, the wine will be drunk, and the smell of oak barrels roasted by vanilla will remain in the empty glass. Because of cost control, fake wine or inferior wine will never be stored in oak barrels, so there will be no aroma hanging on the cup.
Second, the storage method of red wine
cork
Cork has the characteristics of low density, good elasticity, strong flexibility, air tightness, corrosion resistance, decomposition resistance and difficult deterioration, which can keep the quality of wine unchanged over the years. Usually, the length of cork used in general grade wine is about 3.5 cm to 5 cm, and the length of cork used in better quality wine is more than 5 cm. Generally, high-quality wine uses long cork, but long cork wine is not guaranteed to be high-quality wine.
room temperature
We often hear that a certain wine is most suitable for "drinking at room temperature". What does room temperature mean? In fact, room temperature usually refers to the temperature in the country of origin, not the room temperature in China. For French wines, room temperature usually refers to 16 to 18 degrees Celsius. For China, which has a vast territory, except for the cold winter, most of this temperature needs to be achieved by refrigeration. Never put wine at room temperature and take it for granted that it is "room temperature".
Selection of tasting cup
Only by choosing the right tasting cup can we taste the wine completely. Tulip-shaped or neck-necked transparent wine glasses are the best ones used in wine tasting, which can concentrate the aroma of wine near the mouth of the glass and make it easy to judge the smell. Don't have carvings or other colors, so as not to misjudge the color of the wine.
Wine doesn't get better with age.
The older the wine, the better it smells. After the peak of wine aging, it will only go from bad to worse, just like a beautiful woman has her twilight years, and then she will gradually get old and enter a degenerate period. Therefore, wine also needs to be drunk at the right time to taste its peak flavor.
Store your favorite wine.
Find a cool and quiet corner as a place to store wine to avoid strong or abnormal smells (such as paint smell and durian smell) and excessive temperature affecting wine; Don't be too addicted, always take it out and enjoy wiping. The last thing wine needs is shaking and light stimulation.
Long-term storage, lying down is better
If you want to store wine for a period of time, it is best to keep the bottle flat so that the cork can contact with the wine liquid and keep it moist. If the bottle is placed upright, the cork will be excessively dry, which will let air in and destroy the quality of the wine.
How to deal with endless wine?
It is best to estimate how many bottles to open according to the number of people and the amount of alcohol to avoid deterioration after opening.
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How to tell the quality of red wine?
1, look
Red wine should be full of luster, transparent and attractive; If the color is dark and turbid, it means that the quality of this red wine is not high.
Step 2 smell
If red wine is made from high-quality grapes, you should be able to smell the fruit of the grapes when you taste red wine. You can imagine whether red wine is made from black or red fruit, and you will feel its depth and complexity, because often red wine is made from more than one kind of grapes.
Step 3 shake
You should taste red wine in a goblet, so as to ensure that when you want to slowly "shake" the wine in the goblet to show its characteristics, just like the soup cooked in a stirring pot makes it smell good.
4. Commodities
Color and fragrance are both sensory feelings, and the texture, taste and level of red wine can only be felt by real entrance; When high-quality red wine stays in your mouth, it should feel smooth, slowly feel its mellow, and then the taste will be enriched; The smell of wine will make you feel aftertaste, and it will linger in your mouth for a long time.